Mary C. Stiner is the Regents' Professor of Anthropology in the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson and Curator of Zooarchaeology at the Arizona State Museum.^[1] She is known for, among other things, her work studying the death rituals of early hominids.^[2]

Education

• M.A. Anthropology (Archaeology), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico^[3]
• B.A. Anthropology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware^[3]
• B.F.A. Fine Arts (Painting and Ceramic Sculpture), University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware^[3]

Publications

Books

The Faunas of Hayonim Cave (Israel): A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography & Society (published in 2005 with Peabody Museum Press of Harvard University)^[1]

Articles

• "Changes in the 'connectedness' and resilience of Paleolithic societies in Mediterranean ecosystems" (Stiner & Kuhn, 2006, Human Ecology)
• "What's a mother to do? A hypothesis about the division of labor and modern human origins" (Kuhn & Stiner, 2006, Current Anthropology 47)
• "Hearth-side socioeconomics, hunting and paleoecology during the late Lower Paleolithic at Qesem Cave, Israel" (Stiner et al. J Human Evol 2011)
• "Finding a common band-width: Causes of convergence and diversity in Paleolithic beads" (2014, Biological Theory 9(1): 51–64)
• "Love and death in the Stone Age: What constitutes first evidence of mortuary treatment of the human body?" (2017, Biological Theory 12(4): 248–261)^[1]